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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James Tweedie |
ISBN: | 9780199858286 0199858284 9780199858309 0199858306 |
OCLC Number: | 826456687 |
Description: | viii, 366 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: youth, cities, and the globalization of art cinema. The mise en scène of modernity: the French New Wave, Paris, and the global 1960s -- Walking in the city -- New wave futures -- The urban archipelago: Taiwan's new wave and the East Asian economic boom -- Morning in the megacity: Taiwan and the globalization of the city film -- The haunting of Taipei -- Chinese cinema in a world of flows: the new wave in the P.R.C. -- The fifth generation and the youth of China -- On living in a young city. |
Responsibility: | James Tweedie. |
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In The Age of New Waves, James Tweedie takes discrete new wave cinemas from France to Taiwan out of the local contexts that produced them and into which they are too frequently confined, and makes a case for understanding the new wave as a global phenomenon. The result is a brilliant analysis that contributes to national as well as international cinema studies, while rethinking key aspects of both. Tweedie's book itself represents a new wave of scholarship onnational cinemas in the world. * Akira Mizuta Lippit, author of Ex-Cinema: From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video * The problem of the so-called 'new waves' is one that concerns cultural history and periodization generally, and not merely recent film history; nor is it exactly the same as that of 'avant-gardes', even though the two are related. James Tweedie's analysis of the French original is stimulating, but it is his study of the Chinese (and Taiwanese) versions that is truly revealing and I may even say indispensable. * Fredric Jameson * Read more...


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- New wave films -- History and criticism.
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- Avantgarde.
- Film.
- Filmästhetik.
- Nouvelle vague.
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